OTTAWA – The CRTC has issued a call for radio applications to serve the south-central Ontario market of Georgina after determining that the area can sustain an additional commercial station.
The Commission said Thursday that the town, located 81 kilometres north of Toronto on the south-east shore of Lake Simcoe, is geographically the largest of nine municipalities in the Regional Municipality of York and belongs to the Numeris central area of Toronto, which shares the same boundary with the corresponding Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA). In 2016, the population of Georgina represented 0.8% of the population in the Toronto CMA.
Noting that there are no commercial radio stations licensed to serve Georgina specifically, the CRTC said that it thinks that there is potential for a station in that community to generate revenues from local advertisers that do not typically advertise on large, wider-reaching Toronto stations.
The call for applications comes in response to an application made last July from Renfrew-based My Broadcasting Corporation to serve the Georgina market.
Persons interested in responding to this call must submit a completed application to the Commission no later than June 30, 2017, using the appropriate application form for a new radio licence. Applicants are also required to submit all necessary technical documentation to the Department of Industry by the same date.
